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Waldwick police officers honored for rescuing cardiac victim with defibrillator
SHOUT OUTS: It was 2:41 a.m. March 29 when Waldwick police got a 911 call of a 57-year-old man possibly having a stroke. Sgt. Robert Woessner and Officers John Greco and Dillon Sherman responded to the...
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Bergenfield woman, 19, charged with assaulting another
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Bergenfield woman was arrested on charges of assaulting another woman in the victim’s home. Officers responding to the Carlisle Street home at 2:23 p.m. yesterday...
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Fort Lee police seize $46,396, arrest Paterson man in untaxed cigarettes...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fort Lee police arrested a Paterson man on money laundering charges and seized $46,396 cash bundled into rubber-banded bricks that they said was headed south to by untaxed...
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Lodi police arrest couple with Percocet, pot after stop
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Lodi narcotics officers arrested a couple who had nearly five dozen Percosets and marijuana for sale following a traffic stop last night. Sarah Loeffler of Garfield and Cesar...
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Accused shooter in Fairview card game killing could face more than 60 years...
CVP EXCLUSIVE: An Irvington man could face 60 or more years in prison if convicted of the shooting death a Fairview card game operator during a holdup last spring because of other weapons crimes, a...
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Bogota woman arrested, daughter sought in phishing scam
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bogota woman was arrested and her daughter was being sought by authorities in connection with a telephone phishing scam. Sylvia Sturm, 59, was being held on $75,000 bail in...
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New Ridgefield police lieutenants, sergeants promoted
SHOUT OUTS: A standing-room only audience applauded the promotions of nine Ridgefield police officers at the American Legion Hall, filling vacancies opened by retirements. The officers and their new...
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Leonia police grab teens who threw rock off highway overpass
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Leonia police grabbed a Hackensack man and a Maywood juvenile who they said threw a 2½-pound rock off an overpass onto Route 95 last night. Nothing apparently was hit, but the...
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You can help Wood-Ridge school get a new playground
HOW YOU CAN HELP: With a little over two weeks left in the voting, the Catherine E. Doyle School in Wood-Ridge is inching its way toward a shot at winning its first-ever playground through a...
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Allendale police add twist to ‘Coffee With a Cop’— ice cream
SHOUT OUT: Allendale police are launching a “Chills for Pills” program, in which anyone dropping off unwanted medications during next week’s “Coffee With a Cop” session gets a gift card to Dairy Queen,...
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Police shoot knife-wielding Lyndhurst ex-con dead in library struggle
CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos: Maria D.L. Angeles YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A local man wanted by authorities was carrying a knife when he was shot and killed after assaulting two officers who followed him into...
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Ridgefield police charge local man in burglary, theft of $8,000 engagement...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Ridgefield police charged a 23-year-old borough man with swiping a diamond engagement ring, an iPad and $5,000 in cash during a residential burglary earlier this month. Timothy...
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Ridgewood High School prom bus stranded, towed after blocking trains
ONLY ON CVP: A charter bus en route to pick up students attending Ridgewood High School’s senior prom tonight got stuck going up a steep hill near a set of railroad tracks, blocking all commuter trains...
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No injuries after sedan slams into Westwood porch
ONLY ON CVP: A man and his daughter refused medical treatment after their car crashed into a Westwood home tonight. Witnesses told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that the daughter was driving and apparently mistook...
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New Milford police lieutenants sworn
SHOUT OUTS: Three New Milford police sergeants were promoted to lieutenant this week. They are (left to right with Police Chief Frank Ramaci): Detective Lt. Brian Long, a 20-year borough veteran who...
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Bergen sheriff’s union sets benefit dinner for widow, daughters of Lt. Brian...
TRIBUTE: It’s more than two months since Bergen County Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel collapsed and died during a charity basketball tournament for the Tomorrows Children’s Fund, but his spirit lives on in...
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Cliffside Park puts new ambulance into service
PUBLIC SAFETY: Cliffside Park has put a 2014 Braun Chief XL Ford E450 emergency medical vehicle into service, replacing an older ambulance that logged more than 150,000 miles. “There comes a point when...
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Closter woman jailed in hit-and-run knockdown of popular Leonia crossing guard
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: The mother of the late R&B singer Gerald Lavert’s son was taken to the Bergen County Jail today after turning herself in to Leonia police on charges of knocking down a popular...
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Homeless Westwood woman with disabled son spared jail for repeated thefts,...
ONLY ON CVP: An unemployed homeless woman from Westwood with a disabled son and a history of credit card and checkbook thefts avoided prison after promising a judge in Hackensack that she would try to...
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South Hackensack officer remains in trauma unit after chase, crash
UPDATE: A South Hackensack police officer whose SUV was rammed head-on by a fleeing suspect this morning remained in the trauma unit at Hackensack University Medical Center this afternoon with injuries...
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